Mets Notebook

John Delcos enters his third season covering the Mets for The Journal News after eight seasons on the Yankees beat. Prior to coming to New York, John covered the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.

A real legitimate gripe can be made about the organization failed to bring up enough pitching for September. Right now, the bullpen is tired and ineffective, and trotting guys like Sosa out there on a daily basis isn’t helping. I’d have preferred that they brought up 2 or 3 relievers—Jon Adkins, anyone?—and let them pick up some of the bullpen slack.

Hmm, I suggested on FU today that I would have rather had Dave Williams throwing junk balls out there last night than BL. Guess be careful what you wish for, LOL. But seriously, I like Williams, he’s not nearly the scrub BL is.
And Benny, I thought Adkins was injured…I could be wrong. Someone look that up, pretty please??? :)

Agree with Benny that more pitchers should have been brought up this September. What about Muniz and Mulvey? Both pitched well in brief AAA promotions this year. I wish they’d just try some of these guys sometimes. Parade them in and out during the year until someone impresses and sticks. And if none does? No problem. Just send them back down.

steve: Yeah but the playoffs are over. So where are they? Lawrence and Smith were also pitching in the playoffs but now they’re here. Also, Muniz has been in the system for a few years, some of them good, and he had a good year in AA this year. So why not give him a shot?